Well, I have said a lot about PerformR! but didn't say anything about how to use it... Well, also this is the 60th post of the blog. So, I'll just explain a few basics.
Firstly, Make sure that your keyboard is tough and sturdy, as you'll be pressing a lot of buttons so fast so just to make sure that all goes well.
Then, most importantly, turn off the sticky keys. Cause you'll be pressing Shift, Enter and Backspace for quite a while and that can trigger the annoying sticky keys.
Then, when you're all set and ready to go... Pick up your keyboard and hold it exactly like the image below...
That should give you the optimum hand placement for the Performing. Now you can use your left hand to hold down either of F1, F2, F3 or F4 or even multiple keys and use Enter to set off a burst of particles from the center particle. So, it's exactly like playing a guitar... You can hold down the chords and pick with right hand.
Plus, you can also use Shift key to catch a beat. When shift is pressed, it will emit a ring of effect from every primary particle on the screen, it gives you a great effect of rhythm or beat. You can also hold down the Shift key and then whenever you press Enter, it will create rings effects plus particle burst at the same time. It's a great effect to catch up on the Bass Guitar or Acoustic Guitar.
Plus, Backspace gives you a screenful of effects. It will create a burst of secondary particles from every primary particle drawn on the screen. This may be alittle hard on memory but I'm sure that you guys have a lot better machines than I do. So, using Backspace will allow you cause much more effects on the screen, probably great for catching the Overdrive effects.
Most of advanced keyboards will be useless for you to do this trick. You'll better have to get a multimedia keyboard to do it. Cause you can control the Media player on the fly with multimedia keyboards. Plus make sure that width of the keyboard is also not too much for you to hold it properly.
Well then Enjoy!
